New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
LAST PUBLIC WORDS: “The great respect that I have for your leadership, Mr. President, in this little understood, unfamiliar war, the first war of the 21st century, is not well-known, it was not well understood, it is complex for people…
North Korea, via Reuters: “There is no need for Japan to participate in (the talks) as a local delegate because it is no more than a state of the U.S. and it is enough for Tokyo just to be informed…
THE BRITS CHOOSE BUSH. London Guardian: “British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both countries were once cited by the US…
WHOA… NYT: “Iran fired several missiles with a range of more than 1,000 miles during a military maneuver today, apparently to send a message to the United States and several of its allies in the Persian Gulf after they conducted…
The International Crisis Group has a harrowing report out on the large numbers of people leaving North Korea for an uncertain and sometimes perilous life overseas. A sobering assessment of the human costs of the US-North Korea standoff and a…
Kim Jong Il got his bomb. So now we’re going to start planning nuclear war? Apparently so, according to the Korea Times. Key grafs; scary: “Gen. B. B. Bell, commander of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), has been mandated by…
WaPo: “The explosion set off by North Korea yesterday appears to have been extremely small for a nuclear blast, complicating U.S. intelligence efforts to determine whether the country’s first such test was successful or signaled that Pyongyang’s capabilities are less…
As I said on Democracy Now! this morning, North Korea’s test of a nuclear bomb is a monumental event that makes the DPRK the world’s eighth nuclear power (Note: I should have said nine – Israel has the bomb, but…
My latest article, posted on Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch: As tens of thousands of Katrina victims continue to live in dilapidated trailers and thousands more remain stranded in states as far away as Utah and Georgia, multinational corporations loaded with…
Last year I wrote a report for the Washington office of the International Confederation of Trade Unions on how unions around the world have successfully fought back against privatization and other schemes pushed on their countries by the International Monetary…
A cartoon by Mr. Fish. For more, read here and here. And here’s video of what an agitated Bush had to say about it.
More on the economic and ecological damage being inflicted on Lebanon, from Nimrod Halper of Haaretz: “The cost of cleaning up more than 100,000 tons of crude oil that flowed into the Mediterranean Sea when Israel bombed Lebanon’s reserves could…
An editorial in today’s business section of Haaretz, Israel’s most insightful newspaper, gives voice to opinions that are all but missing from the American media. Nimrod Halpern writes: The sweeping assault on transport, energy and communications infrastructure in Lebanon have…
From Raw Story: “During an interview on CNN, comedian Lewis Black complained about CNN’s “overuse” of key graphic banners and tickers. 24 hour news networks use similar banners and news tickers, that often prevent viewers from seeing the lower portion…
If Hankyroreh, a South Korean newspaper, can interview Han Song-ryol, North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations in New York, well, so can anyone. It would be nice for once for the New York Times or the Washington Post…
Very likely: Japan’s Asahi reports from Seoul that military hardliners appear to be calling the shots in North Korea. Maybe Kim Jong Il is being outflanked by the DPRK’s version of the neocons. Excerpts: “Although it is difficult to tell…